Political attention and the substance of legislative reform (C07*)

• Subject Area: General Education and History of Education
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 139943784

The project aims to apply automatic face detection and face recognition to analyze parliamentary video recordings. This allows generating a proposal-specific measure of the parliamentary attendance of legislators, where attendance indicates the level of salience attributed to individual issues by political actors. The proposal-specific salience measure is used to investigate the degree to which salience perceptions influences bargaining interactions at the parliamentary stage and, hence, the substance of reform proposals. For the empirical application, we study the Landtag Baden-Württemberg in three legislative periods, from 2006 onwards.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 884: Political Economy of Reforms
• Applicant Institution: Universität Mannheim
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Thomas Gschwend, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Dominic Nyhuis; Professor Dr.-Ing. Rainer Stiefelhagen